Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
riginal Message - From: "shane christenson" To: ; Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:49 PM Subject: a couple of cd/dvd questions Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu ray reader/writer for my mac mini. I would prefer something I don't h

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
ern windows based machines would, wouldn't they? or am I wrong. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "shane christenson" > To: ; > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:49 PM > Subject: a couple of cd/dvd questions > > > Hi folks. I'm considering

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Gilland
, wouldn't they? or am I wrong. Chris. - Original Message - From: "shane christenson" To: ; Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:49 PM Subject: a couple of cd/dvd questions Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu ray reader/writer for

Re: a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Blouch
Playback of bluray on Mac is still a bit of roll your own. Some folks say you should just rip the disc with MakeMKV and then play it back with VLC. For regular DVDs you should be able to just use Apple's DVD player. The difficulty with any flavor of video disk is that if you are in the states t

a couple of cd/dvd questions

2013-05-30 Thread shane christenson
Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu ray reader/writer for my mac mini. I would prefer something I don't have to plug into electricity, but if it has to have wall power, that's not by any means a deal breaker. I don't care if it doesn't write to blu ray disk